I have the shredder only one day, but I already crushed about 150 pages with it. I agree on the whole, the review of Browntall, but would like to correct that my shredder holder of a cutting function - but for one off (OFF). One should not introduce the maximum number of pages (7) also - it must then be very tormenting and takes considerably longer. Liquid and fast as possible to a maximum of 3 pages. The noise level is tolerable. An improvement I would imagine, if the paper receptacle would be transparent, so that you can have to stand without the cutting unit, the achieved filling height could detect. If this Shredder would now achieve even a minimum service life of 10 years (as my previous), I was very pleased with him.